4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on December 6, 2016

You couldn’t hope to come up with a better story than this. Pure movie fodder if there ever was and the most astounding thing is that it was essentially fact — spawned from a William Goldman script tirelessly culled from testimonials and the eponymous source material. All the President&#   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on December 3, 2016

The opening notes of Joan Jett hollering “Bad Reputation” made me grow wistfully nostalgic for Freaks & Geeks reruns. The hope budded that maybe 10 Things I Hate About You would be the same  tour de force narrative brimming with the same type of candor. It is not. Not at all....   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on December 3, 2016

The opening notes of Joan Jett hollering “Bad Reputation” made me grow wistfully nostalgic for Freaks & Geeks reruns. The hope budded that maybe 10 Things I Hate About You would be the same tour de force narrative brimming with the same type of candor. It is not. Not at all....   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on December 1, 2016

“You and I share a secret. We know how easy it is to kill somebody.” – Robin Williams as Walter Finch As I come to understand it, calling Christopher Nolan’s film a remake of the Norwegian thriller of the same name starring Stellan Skarsgaard is not exactly fair. As a...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on December 1, 2016

“You and I share a secret. We know how easy it is to kill somebody.” – Robin Williams as Walter Finch As I come to understand it, calling Christopher Nolan’s film a remake of the Norwegian thriller of the same name starring Stellan Skarsgaard is not exactly fair. As a...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 29, 2016

This was not the film I expected from the outset, and oftentimes that’s a far more gratifying experience. Nostalgia was expected and this film certainly has it,  even to the point of casting the legendary funny man and cultural icon Don Knotts in the integral role as the television repair man.   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 29, 2016

This was not the film I expected from the outset, and oftentimes that’s a far more gratifying experience. Nostalgia was expected and this film certainly has it,  even to the point of casting the legendary funny man and cultural icon Don Knotts in the integral role as the television repairman.   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 27, 2016

One of Jean-Luc Godard’s strengths is his capability of feigning pretentiousness, while still simultaneously articulating humor. His film opens with its first of many inter-titles, “A film adrift in the cosmos,” followed by the equally poignant “A film found in a dump.”   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 27, 2016

One of Jean-Luc Godard’s strengths is his capability of feigning pretentiousness, while still simultaneously articulating humor. His film opens with its first of many inter-titles, “A film adrift in the cosmos,” followed by the equally poignant “A film found in a dump.”   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 26, 2016

By today’s standards, it might not look like much, but all conversations of independent filmmaking cannot go anywhere without John Cassavetes and specifically his debut Shadows. It’s hard to get out of our modern perspective with so many different outlets to get films made, but back in t   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 26, 2016

By today’s standards, it might not look like much, but all conversations of independent filmmaking cannot go anywhere without John Cassavetes and specifically his debut Shadows. It’s hard to get out of our modern perspective with so many different outlets to get films made, but back in t   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 23, 2016

Branded to Kill is the stuff of legend inasmuch as director Seijun Suzuki offered up this wonderfully wacky, perverse, dynamic film and was subsequently dumped by his studio.  At Nikkatsu they accused Suzuki of crafting an oeuvre that made “no sense and no money.” And if we watch it with   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 23, 2016

Branded to Kill is the stuff of legend inasmuch as director Seijun Suzuki offered up this wonderfully wacky, perverse, dynamic film and was subsequently dumped by his studio.  At Nikkatsu they accused Suzuki of crafting an oeuvre that made “no sense and no money.” And if we watch it with   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 21, 2016

This Canadian-American production written by Nancy Oliver undoubtedly frightens the more suppressed of us in the audience (mainly me) with its main hook, a man who begins a relationship with a female sex doll, but just like his entire town, most of us leave this film with a very different perspecti   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 21, 2016

This Canadian-American production, written by Nancy Oliver, undoubtedly frightens the more suppressed of us in the audience (mainly me) with its main hook, a man who begins a relationship with a female sex doll, but just like his entire town, most of us leave this film with a very different perspec   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 19, 2016

Michele Morgan (1920-): A French beauty and leading lady for numerous decades known for integral roles in films in her native France and across the globe. Her filmography includes Michel Carne’s revered classic with Jean Gabin Port of Shadows as well as Carol Reed’s adroit drama Fallen I   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 19, 2016

Michele Morgan (1920-): A French beauty and leading lady for numerous decades known for integral roles in films in her native France and across the globe. Her filmography includes Michel Carne’s revered classic with Jean Gabin Port of Shadows as well as Carol Reed’s adroit drama Fallen I   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 17, 2016

Where to start with Liberal Arts? It’s one of those deep blue funk movies . Zach Braff tackled this issue in The Garden State, and Josh Radnor does a similar thing here. Because the reality is that we live in a generation of early onset midlife crises. In the opening moments, 35-year-old...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 17, 2016

Where to start with Liberal Arts? It’s one of those deep blue funk movies. Zach Braff tackled this issue in Garden State, and Josh Radnor does a similar thing here. Because the reality is that we live in a generation of early onset midlife crises. In the opening moments, 35-year-old Jesse Fish   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 15, 2016

Inspired directors oftentimes do not make themselves known in grandiose flourishes but in the smallest of touches, and in his debut, Polish newcomer Roman Polanski does something interesting with the opening of Knife in the Water. Perhaps it’s not that unusual, but it’s also hard to reme   read more